Line X
Soviet KGB division tasked with acquiring and copying Western technology / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Linux.
For the proposed Line X in New York City, see Proposed expansion of the New York City Subway § Triboro RX.
Line X was a section of the KGB First Chief Directorate residency organization assigned to acquire Western technology for the Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence (Directorate "T"). In the early 1980s, over 200 Line X agents were exposed or compromised as a consequence of the Farewell Dossier, collapsing the Line X operations in Europe.[1]